Web API route to action name

Question

I need a controller to return JSON to be consumed by JavaScript so I inherited from the ApiController class but it isn\'t behaving as I expected. The Apress bo

Answer 1

If you want Web API to look for the action name when routing, change the WebApiConfig.cs class in the App_Start folder to this:

config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
    name: "DefaultApi",
    routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
    defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);

Then you can just make a GET request to

http://mysite/api/Services/MethodFruit